The Locavore

I’ve just looked at my favourite recipe website, www.epicurious.com, and found 99 red currant recipes (but the fruit plays such a minor role in 90 per cent of them that their name isn’t even in the title). The vast majority of these recipes (most, if not all) involve red currant glaze, jelly or jam. Except for one [...]

They look like small jewels: round like pearls, scarlet like rubies. The red currant, a small berry I remember from my grandmother’s red fruit dessert–a compote of summer berries she’d make in August and freeze so we could eat the sweet summery stuff when snow lay on the ground. She used to pick them at her friend Brenda’s house, a sloped-roof cottage-like [...]